At 11:12 20/06/2007 +1000, Lachlan Gordon wrote:
Hi I am enquiring to weather open office is compatible with windows 2007. We
have a customer that has Open Office and the want to open a document in
Microsoft Office 2007 is that possible.
thanks
Regards,
Lachlan Gordon
Let me make sure I have this the right way around: you have Microsoft
Office 2007 and you want to be able to send Office document files to
the customer with OpenOffice - right?
OpenOffice cannot (yet?) open and use document files saved in the new
default formats from Microsoft Office 2007, e.g. .docx files from
Word 2007. Your solution is simple: just use the Save As facility in
Office to save a version of your document in the appropriate older
Office format: .doc for Word, .xls for Excel, and so on. Your
customer will be able to open and use these in OpenOffice. Note that
you may prefer to keep your own copy of the file (for future use) in
the default new format.
The above is what you need to do if your customer needs to edit the
file further. But if s/he needs merely to be able to display and
perhaps print the file, there are two other possibilities:
1. Obtain some software that will enable you to create Portable
Document Format (.pdf) files from your documents. There are many
such products available, including free ones. Send PDFs to your
customers instead of word processor or spreadsheet files. There are
many reasons why this can be a better solution.
2. If your customer is using Windows, recommend that they download
from the Microsoft web site and install the freeware viewers for
Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files. These enable anyone to read and
print Microsoft Office files (but not to edit them, of course). The
current Word and Excel viewers read only document files in the older
Office format, but there is a Compatibility Pack also available from
Microsoft which will update the viewers to be able to read your
Office 2007 files directly.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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